Want to be popular? The most recently available statistics say 70% of Canadians are owners of real estate, so if you’re looking to win friends talk bullish about the housing market…it’ll be bull alright, but you’ll be loved.
Who wants to hear that…
kirbycairo: Liberals limp into their future. . . …
I love this stuff. It really is priceless. The first major action of the Liberal Party of Canada in its process of rejuvenation is to bypass their own constitution. Classic! The Liberal Party of Canada wants to recreate itself and its first message is …
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: So, I’m in the Toronto Star…
Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star has quoted my blog post. What is a political party anyway? Given that there are so many ways for politicians to connect directly with citizens, many wonder why people need the brokerage role of political parties in t…
Continue readingKen Chapman: Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy Report is Some Kind of Wonderful
Premier Stelmach gathered together and challenge twelve of the most thoughtful minds you can imagine to actually imagine the reality we face as Albertans to ensure our prosperity from now until 2040. Then they were challenged to get focused on major aspects of the challenges ahead. That resulted in the five themes
Continue readingIt’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
LeaveYourSteppingStonesBehindSomethingCallsForYouVilleSo.If Christy Clark is a Liberal…..Why, exactly, are all her campaign signs blue?.
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Since the story broke abut African migrants forcibly dying off the coast of Libya, abandoned by NATO’s humanitarian mission, so many trite remakes have been made. The most common is some variation of, “I am reduced to silence”, or …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: After an election about personalities, not policies, we can and must do better
We have just witness an election which while historic in many ways was not one of any significance in terms of a discussion of actual issues or policies. The political choices of all four major leaders – and we the audience who responds to them – focus…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: On a Blue Sea Burns an Orange Fire Lily
Don’t be poor. Don’t be gay. Don’t be a woman; we own your womb.
Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a river or a tree.
Don’t struggle; there is no oppression. Don’t seek asylum in our country.
Don’t ask q…
Continue readingeaves.ca: An open letter to new MPs
Dear new MPs, Congratulations on being elected! You’ve every right to be excited – as a fellow Canadian who is hoping that the house can be changed, I’m excited too. You are the largest group of young MPs to hit the house in a long time. You’re also mostly from the same province (Quebec) and […]
Continue readingWhen is bad financial management good financial management?
Consider two events and the responses to these events by two different governments. The events are remarkably similar. A party is elected to government at a time when the economy is healthy and then is blindsided by a recession referred to as the worst…
Continue readingTown going koo-koo bananas…
UPDATED… … and, it appears, it only took six months into this new term of council… Exhibit No. 1: At this moment (about 1:30 in the afternoon on Monday), two guys in a cherry-picker are washing down the new library building with a powerwasher and a broom. Really? Are we trying to preserve the building’s […]
The Case Of The Lazy Journos
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh faced young punks who will be incapable of properly opposing anything. The MSM in Ottawa has d…
Continue readingThe Case Of The Lazy Journos
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh faced young punks who will be incapable of properly opposing anything. The MSM in Ottawa has d…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Shifting Blame
I suspect that the 24% of Canadians who gave Stephen Harper his majority don’t read Paul Krugman. But, as Mr. Harper and his acolytes rest smugly in their certitude that corporate tax cuts create jobs, the rest of us should read Krugman’s column in th…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Birthers Put To Rest!
I don’t think that it should have taken Obama to realize a birth certificate in order to prove that he was actually born in the U.S, but a new poll showed that now only 3 percent believe Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. I hope now we can concentrate on th…
Continue readingDemocratic Progress: Adults Are Listening
In 2005, Andrew Potter wrote (in what happened to be a piece discussing pitfalls Michael Ignatieff might face as Liberal Leader) that “Canadians are incapable of having an adult discussion”. Isn’t it time for the Liberals to become that party?
With wh…
Continue readinggay persons of color: We Who Feel Differently
People are not provoked by those who are different. What is more provoking is our insecurity: When you say, “I am so sorry but I am different.” That’s much more provoking than saying “I am different,” or “I have something to tell you, I can…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: May 11: "Beyond the Walls": A new publication about political prisoners in Colombia
it’s the Festival of Anarchy in Montreal, a month of radical events around the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair… i’ll be highlighting some of these on this blog, the first of which is actually in just 2 days, as the PASC – a local group doing solidarity w…
Continue readingNDP Ideas: NDP Ideas 2011-05-09 09:35:00
Gardening for food banks from Www.thespec.com – news local Bill Wilcox has been busy cultivating community gardens to grow produce for local food banks and soup kitchens.
Continue readingNew Resolution: A Resolution Regarding Poverty and Social Exclusion
A Resolution Regarding Poverty and Social ExclusionProposed by: Carol-Anne Hudson, HamiltonDate: 09/05/11Whereas we are committed to living in an Ontario without poverty and; Whereas we are committed to living in a society where all citizens are consid…
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